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EPA’s P2 Program
2009 GLRPPR Summer Conference
June 4, 2009
Briefing Outline
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Landscape and Opportunities
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P2 Strategic Plan
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P2 Integration
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P2 Centers of Results
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Future Opportunities
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Words to Live By
You have to recognize when the right
place and the right time fuse and take
advantage of that opportunity. There are
plenty of opportunities out there. You
can’t just sit back and wait.
– Ellen Metcalf
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 – 1931)
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Leadership Changes
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New Administration began January 20,
2009
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Steve Owens (Arizona) nominated AA for
OPPTS
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EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, confirmed
January 23, 2009
Confirmation hearing occurred May 12
Expected to be on board in June
Acting OPPT Office Director
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Stimulus Bill
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$787 B stimulus bill to jump-start the economy
signed February 2009
 EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson:
“As EPA works with our state and local partners to use
these Recovery Act dollars in the most effective way, we
must ensure a focus on the basic principles of pollution
prevention and sustainability.”
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$78.61 B directly earmarked for green projects
 Energy efficiency initiatives
 Green jobs
 Green buildings
 Green transportation
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Climate Change
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Responding to the threat of climate change is a
high priority for this Administration
Over 30 bills related to climate change are under
consideration in Congress
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Rep. Henry Waxman (Chairman, HR Energy and
Commerce Committee) stated that passing climate
change legislation is a top priority.
Cap and trade vs. carbon tax
ACES (American Clean Energy and Security Act),
~650 pages
Senate S.661
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Seizing the Day
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Respond effectively to these changes
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Think and act proactively
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Leverage resources where possible
Focus on a few things to do well
Enhance communication and collaboration
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Movement to green economy = more P2 opportunities
Jan 20, 2009 Memo from President Obama on
Transparency and Open Government
Government should be transparent, participatory and
collaborative
Strengthen P2 to contribute to a sustainable
society
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Take advantage of opportunities with potential to make
the greatest impact
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Underlying Concerns
“Voluntary programs” . . .
 Being used inappropriately where mandatory regulation
necessary
 Diverting resources from “core” work
 Not authorized
 Not producing environmental results
 Not well-managed
EPA’s Key Management Challenges for Fiscal Year 2009
4/28/09 Report from OIG:
“Voluntary programs can be an adjunct to regulatory
programs. However, their effectiveness and impacts cannot
be assessed without the collection of comprehensive, valid,
and reliable performance data. In light of these systemic
findings, EPA should determine the extent to which
voluntary programs can effectively address its pressing
environmental and human health challenges.”
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P2 Strengths
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Demonstrated results
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Measures are in place to assess progress
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New MMTC02e FY 09 reporting measure
Solid set of core programs advancing P2
nationally
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P2 Program rated 3rd highest among EPA Programs in
OMB’s PART
EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) recently described
the P2 programs as “among the most forward-looking
and important programs of the EPA.”
8 national P2 centers of results
P2 is top priority for OPPT
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Maintaining P2 Progress
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Merge environmental considerations with
economic growth considerations to achieve
sustainability
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Strategic thinking and maximizing results are
essential to maintaining an updated and relevant
P2 program
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“sustainability” is more than “survivability”
P2 Strategic Plan opportunities
Communication and collaboration are at the core
of our success
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P2 integration
You can never plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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P2 Strategic Plan
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1.5 year effort to help guide our P2
program
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Draft Plan issued in February 2009 for review
and comment by stakeholders
Comments pointed to the need for a stronger
plan that better reflected the changing times
Initial draft Plan had 3 environmental
outcomes
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Reducing GHGs
Reducing toxic chemicals
Conserving natural resources
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P2 Strategic Plan
Draft Plan is being updated to make it
more strategically-oriented
 Significantly shortening the Plan
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Making it more readable and removing the
minutia
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Around 10 pages
Additional information/details in appendices
Activities will go in implementation plans
More concise/succinct wording
Identifying key strategies to achieve goals
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P2 Strategic Plan
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The new Plan consists of 5 key goals
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Will serve multiple purposes
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Reduce GHGs
Reduce use of toxic chemicals/haz materials
Reduce the use of water/conserve nat resources
Create business efficiencies
Institutionalize and integrate P2
Providing direction for our P2 program
Raising awareness of opportunities
Target for completion in June 2009
Webinar planned for June 16
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P2 Integration
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Completed a P2 Integration report in early
2009
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Included short and long-term
recommendations to improve P2 integration
Considering in the context of our P2
Strategic Plan
 Exploring new opportunities to enhance P2
integration
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P2 Centers of Results
Green Chemistry
 Green Engineering
 Design for the Environment
 Regional Activities
 Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange
Environmentally
Network (P2Rx)
Preferable
Purchasing (EPP)
 Green Suppliers Network
$ BUY GREEN
 Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
 Partnership for Sustainable Healthcare
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Green Chemistry
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Annual Presidential Green Chemistry
Challenge Awards Program recognizes
innovations in greener chemical design,
development, and implementation.
Awards
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The Green Chemistry Program promotes
up-front design changes and substitutions
to avoid downstream hazards associated
with a chemical’s lifecycle.
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Green Chemistry
 Avoids costly and often problematic “command
and control” actions by focusing on reducing
risk by designing out inherent hazard and
designing in inherent safety.
 Design, development, and implementation of
technologies that are:
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Technologically feasible and highly innovative;
Equal or improved in performance;
Cost competitive and often cost preferable;
Long lasting in lifetime and benefits; and
Transferable across sectors - Green Chemistry
promotes technology transfer by posting abstracts of
award winning and valid nominated technologies.
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Green Engineering
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Green Engineering is the environmentally conscious
design, commercialization and use of processes and
products that are feasible and economical while
minimizing the generation of pollution and risks to health
and the environment.
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Leads and catalyzes efforts to incorporate green
engineering approaches, techniques and tools into
engineering curricula and industrial practices.
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Promotes and fosters research, development
and implementation of green technologies,
approaches, tools, and materials.
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Green Engineering
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Partnership - Environmental Improvement in
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes
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Pilot project with pharmaceutical facilities in Region 2, 3
and 5 to identify and implement approaches to
eliminate/recycle/reuse solvents. Partners include
pharmaceutical companies, EPA Regions, and experts from
academia, NIST, and ORCR.
Textbook - “Green Engineering: Environmentally
Conscious Design of Chemical Processes”, in its
third printing.
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Widely used in the US as primary textbook for Green
Engineering and Sustainability courses.
Engineering students apply their knowledge in designing
and development of green processes and products.
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Design for the Environment
Conducts Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
 Focuses on Office & Agency Priority
Chemical Issues
 Uses OPPT Technical Tools & Expertise in
every project
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Key to informing substitution to safer chemicals
Makes DfE partnerships valuable to industry &
NGOs
Reduced the use of 335 million pounds of
chemicals of concern last year.
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Design for the Environment
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Safer Product Labeling: Allows use of DfE recognition (label) on over
1000 products (~ 240 million pounds of safer chemicals), up from <
400 a year ago.
Leveraging through 3rd parties has made this growth possible, and
has made OPPT tools more broadly available and used.
Enhancing Transparency through screens that define safer chemicals
by functional class
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Multi-stakeholder input & RAD technical support is critical
 General Screen – Complete
 Solvents Screen, phase I – Complete
 Surfactants Screen (includes stringent criteria for direct release) –
Complete
 Fragrances Screen – under stakeholder vetting
 Chelating Agents Screen – 8/2009
 Solubility Enhancers (small amines) Screen – 10/2009
 Polymers Screen 12/2009
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Design for the Environment
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Best Practices to reduce exposure to key asthmagens–
Collaboration with OAQPS/CARE/EJ:
 DfE conducted 31 workshops in 8 Regions for over 1000 auto
refinishers in 2008; results included potential reductions of
112,000 lbs of VOCs and HAPs, 180,000 lbs particulates, and
potential savings of $2 million in material costs
 Major east-coast paint supplier is helping its 2,000 customer
shops evaluate/implement best practices
40 SDSI Champions have eliminated problematic surfactants
from all their products
Alternatives Assessment
 Replaced 65 M lbs of lead in solder
 Replaced 19 M lbs of Flame Retardants of concern
DfE-Industry partnerships reduced more than 335 million
pounds of chemicals of concern in 2008
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EPA P2 Regional Activities
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Consistent with P2 statutory authority, EPA Regions
provide grants used to build and maintain a vital state
P2 infrastructure which supports and provides needed
technical assistance for local businesses.
Grants have contributed to broad scale changes in
small businesses such as auto refinishers, metal and
print shops.
Grants also help keep numerous state leadership
programs in operation & investing in new P2
approaches.
FY 09 funds: Approx. $4.2 million (STAG); $1.4
million (EPM)
Regions also provide direct P2 technical assistance.
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Green Suppliers Network
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EPA established the GSN to help small/mediumsized suppliers to large manufacturers reduce their
impact on the environment while staying
competitive and profitable.
Collaborates with the Department of Commerce’s
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) through the Manufacturing Extension
Partnership (MEP) program.
Through on-site reviews, suppliers learn ways to
increase energy efficiency, optimize resources and
technologies to eliminate waste, and identify costsaving opportunities.
Over 90 suppliers have had GSN on-site reviews pace of assessments in 2009 is accelerating.
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Green Suppliers Network
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Columbus, Ohio & San Antonio, Texas “E3 Catalyst”
projects:
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Suppliers’ Partnership for the Environment:
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Lean, clean, energy efficiency and carbon footprint
Materials Assessment Program (Chemicals in Products)
Greening North American Automotive Supply Chains working
with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Interagency Collaboration with the Manufacturing
Sector:
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OPPTS/MEP/DOE
Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative
Interagency Network of Enterprise Assistance Providers
(INEAP)
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Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange
(P2Rx)
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National web-based network of eight regional P2Rx
information centers reach P2 Technical assistance
providers (TAPs) at the State, Federal and local
levels, plus businesses and nonprofit organizations.
P2Rx information centers:
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Disseminate P2 information
Provide networking opportunities for sharing P2
expertise and strategies
Leverage resources, increase efficiency, and avoid
duplication of effort.
A recent P2Rx program evaluation (sponsored by
OPEI) confirmed the effectiveness of this network
in adding to the value and efficiency of state
programs.
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Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
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EPP meets distinct obligation under the PPA and EO
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federal government (# 1 purchaser globally) to
stimulate national demand for greener products and
services.
Program has evolved from the collection and
dissemination of green contract language and
standards (EPP Database) to leadership in the
development of voluntary consensus standards for
environmentally sound products and services (via
ASTM, IEEE, NSF).
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EPP Sectors
Electronics
 Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC) -- provides technical assistance
and awards to federal agencies for purchasing green electronics,
reducing their impacts during use, and managing their disposal
responsibly.
 Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) – helps
purchasers buy greener electronics by creating voluntary
environmental performance standards with stakeholders and a
registry of products that meet these standards. Program covers
computer desktops, laptops, and monitors, and is expanding to
cover imaging equipment, televisions, servers, and cell phones.
Over 40% of computers bought in 2007 were EPEAT-registered
products.
Green Meetings
 OPPT leads EPA in the development of a voluntary consensus-based
standard for green meetings and events. Expected to be completed
in 2010, this initiative may include: specifications for hotels,
convention centers, transportation and food and beverage services.
OPPT is also working with GSA and OFEE towards government-wide
adoption of the completed standards for not only meetings and
conferences, but possibly federal travel.
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EPP Sectors (cont’d)
Green Buildings
 OPPT co-chairs the Agency’s GB Workgroup and is a major
contributor to meeting the goals of the EPA GB Strategy
 Federal Green Construction Guide for Specifiers – an awardwinning tool assisting both federal and private sector
construction and renovation projects in greening products
and practices
 ASTM International – OPPT is the vice-chair of the new
Sustainability Comm. Developing standards including
“minimum performance requirements” for sustainable
building among others
 NSF International – OPPT is actively participating in the
development of sustainability standards for carpet,
furniture, resilient flooring, wall coverings, and roofing, and
is co-chairing the committee developing a sustainable
textiles standard.
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Partnership for Sustainable Healthcare
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PSH is a voluntary program to help health care
facilities become better environmental stewards.
This program began as a partnership between EPA,
American Hospital Association, and Health Care
Without Harm, and was called Hospitals for a
Healthy Environment (H2E).
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H2E migrated from EPA to a fully independent non-profit
organization in 2007.
Prior to that, the H2E program had over 7,000 partners
(3000 hospitals, plus clinics, nursing homes, and assisted
care facilities).
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Partnership for Sustainable Healthcare
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PSH now has two major program emphases:
1) Continues to provide P2 technical support to the health
care sector, and helps other program offices on work with
this sector:
 ORCR Universal Waste Rule revision
 OW Pharmaceutical Waste Rule data collection
 OECA Compliance Assistance Center for health care
2) Provides international leadership in reducing mercury
use in the health care sector
 Pilot program with China completed in 2008
 Pilot programs on-going in Mexico, Argentina, Costa
Rica
 NPCD-funded cooperative agreement will support
additional programs in Latin America
 Negotiating pilot in India
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P2 Performance Measurement
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Measures and Targets in
2006-2011 EPA Strategic Plan
4.5 billion pounds of hazardous material
reduced
 31.5 trillion British Thermal Units (BTUs)
reduced
 19 billion gallons of water conserved
 $791.9 million saved through the
adoption of P2 practices.
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P2 Performance Measurement
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Measures and Targets in
Draft 2009-2014 EPA Strategic Plan
6.5 billion pounds of hazardous material
reduced
 10 million metric tons of carbon
equivalent (MMTCO2e) reduced
 50 billion gallons of water conserved
 $2 billion saved through the adoption of
P2 practices.
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Growing Areas of Demand
E3 Projects – several more states showing
interest to start pilots
 Standards –growing consumer interest in
product standards and criteria to help
them make “green” choices
 P2 calculators – PPD released new GHG
emissions and P2 cost calculators in midMay
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Future P2 Opportunities
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Emphasize GHG reductions as a priority co-benefit to hazardous
chemicals reductions.
Leverage P2 opportunities with OPPT programs, EPA offices and
other federal agencies.
Promote the development of voluntary consensus standards to
advance P2 practices.
Strengthen state and local infrastructure by providing resources
($ and technical) for state TAPs.
Increase collaboration with DOE’s Industrial Technologies Program
to weave energy efficiency technical assistance into the GSN
model.
Promote nanoscale innovation, especially in the area of safer
chemical building blocks and GHG reduction.
Identify alternatives to chemicals of concern such as diisocyanates,
phthalates, BPA, etc.
Work with federal partners to create and promote “greener jobs” –
e.g., the auto industry, building retrofits, chemical engineering.
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